Fundraising for the development of surveillance products would be much more challenging if there was no legal use for it. Right now, companies are encouraged t

Fundraising for the development of surveillance products would be much more challenging if there was no legal use for it. Right now, companies are encouraged to build whatever they think LEO and counter-terrorism would find useful, and people get shocked when they realize its also being sold to authoritarian third-world governments to use against political activists.